I'm curious just how quickly the island will erode.Being silt, it won't last long, but would presumably be a rich growing medium - could a fast growing kelp be used to help stabilize the slopes and preserve the island? Could a quick concerted effort preserve the island?

I'm curious just how quickly the island will erode.Being silt, it won't last long, but would presumably be a rich growing medium - could a fast growing kelp be used to help stabilize the slopes and preserve the island? Could a quick concerted effort preserve the island?

I think that it will sink due to subsidence rather than erosional forces.

I'm curious just how quickly the island will erode.Being silt, it won't last long, but would presumably be a rich growing medium - could a fast growing kelp be used to help stabilize the slopes and preserve the island? Could a quick concerted effort preserve the island?

Why yes, this island did appear at the same time hundreds of your kin died. That's why we want to preserve it, since we don't need to look at it every day.

I'm curious just how quickly the island will erode.Being silt, it won't last long, but would presumably be a rich growing medium - could a fast growing kelp be used to help stabilize the slopes and preserve the island? Could a quick concerted effort preserve the island?

I'm curious: what do you think would be the accomplishment balanced against the opportunity to observe the natural process? There's any number of engineering projects that have been undertaken already to "reclaim" land from the sea.

I'm curious just how quickly the island will erode.Being silt, it won't last long, but would presumably be a rich growing medium - could a fast growing kelp be used to help stabilize the slopes and preserve the island? Could a quick concerted effort preserve the island?

Yes, but you'll have a hell of a time building the launch bay, monorail, and other supervillain accoutrements.

Methane is odorless, this is why natural gas is actually mixed with an odorant such as tert-Butylthiol, which gives the rotten eggs smell. If it weren't for this "ungodly smell" (the irony of that statement...) then a lot more people would die from natural gas leaks.

A similar thing happened after the 2004 massive 9.0 Indian Ocean earthquake, the ocean floor rose up 1,189m (3,900 feet) in some places. No island was formed but now the water which was 1,219m (4,000 feet) deep is now only 30m (100 feet) deep, 30m more and it could be an island. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6791600

I've seen enough Godzilla movies in my day to know what comes next. That's no island. And when it completely wakes from it's slumber, we are going to wish we paid more attention to Pacific Rim's Jaegers...

A similar thing happened after the 2004 massive 9.0 Indian Ocean earthquake, the ocean floor rose up 1,189m (3,900 feet) in some places. No island was formed but now the water which was 1,219m (4,000 feet) deep is now only 30m (100 feet) deep, 30m more and it could be an island. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6791600

According to what I read yesterday (either AP or BBC) the methane under the ocean floor was the solid Methane Clathrates we've had articles on here about previously. Apparently the heat produced by plates colliding melted the hydrates, which caused them to expand and push the floor up. Very cool stuff.